TRIPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tripper mean? 

• TRIPPER (noun)
  The noun TRIPPER has 4 senses:

1. (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations

2. a walker or runner who trips and almost falls

3. a tourist who is visiting sights of interest

4. a catch mechanism that acts as a switch

  Familiarity information: TRIPPER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRIPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("tripper" is a kind of...):

drug user; substance abuser; user (a person who takes drugs)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A walker or runner who trips and almost falls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

stumbler; tripper

Hypernyms ("tripper" is a kind of...):

footer; pedestrian; walker (a person who travels by foot)

Derivation:

trip (miss a step and fall or nearly fall)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A tourist who is visiting sights of interest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

excursionist; rubberneck; sightseer; tripper

Hypernyms ("tripper" is a kind of...):

holidaymaker; tourer; tourist (someone who travels for pleasure)

Derivation:

trip (make a trip for pleasure)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A catch mechanism that acts as a switch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

trip; tripper

Context example:

the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water

Hypernyms ("tripper" is a kind of...):

catch; stop (a restraint that checks the motion of something)

Derivation:

trip (put in motion or move to act)

 Context examples 

They be all very well for comers and trippers, an' the like, but not for a nice young lady like you.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)